Queering cultural memory through technology: Transitional spaces in AR and VR
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2021
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Ceuterick, Maud
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Film and Screen Media, University College Cork
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While cinema boasts of a long history that has placed the representation and aesthetics of memory at its centre, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are only starting to shape their own aesthetic and narrative engagement with memory. Through the analysis of Chez Moi (Caitlin Fisher and Tony Vieira, 2014), Queerskins: Ark (Illja Szilak, 2020), and Homestay (Paisley Smith, 2018), this essay shows how cinematic AR and VR involve the viewers’ movement to produce and transform collective memory and spatial habitation. Feminist digital geographies, film and media theory, and the concept of orientation developed by Sara Ahmed in Queer Phenomenology (2006) give sense to how sound, images and viewers’ movement participate to rewrite collective memory and cultural symbols. As these artworks present personal memories of struggles to find a home within present spaces, they queer hegemonic orientations of the subject, and invite viewers to re-align body and space within ever-changing virtual and digital spaces.
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VR and AR , Locative video , Post-cinema , Queer theory , Phenomenology
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Ceuterick, M. (2021) 'Queering cultural memory through technology: Transitional spaces in AR and VR', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 21, pp. 89-110. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.21.05